Tech Talent Acquisition Specialist

Make a Difference as a Tech Talent Acquisition Specialist

As our new Dutch speaking Tech Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will operate at the heart of a part of our global, fast-moving company.

About Ahold Delhaize

We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 17 strong local retail brands in the United States, Europe and Indonesia, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of our brands’ customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our associates thrive.

Your new work environment

As Tech Talent Acquisition Specialist you'll be working within the Tech Squad of the Ahold Delhaize Career Center, based in Zaandam HQ. You'll be part of the Permanent Tech Recruitment Team and also work closely together with our Tech Flex Recruiter(s). In our team you can make a significant impact with your IT knowledge, recruitment experience, stakeholder management skills and (fun and hard working) personality. There's also close communication with colleagues in Recruitment Marketing, HR Onboarding Support and HRBP’s.

In your day-to-day role, you'll interact with inspiring (inter)national IT colleagues and tech hiring managers from various innovative Albert Heijn Technology platforms in The Netherlands. A community of people, representing over 25 nationalities, with diverse skills and backgrounds, and a shared ambition: building solutions that make (online) shopping easier and more enjoyable. Albert Heijn invests heavily in data, digital, and technology. This also applies to finding the best or most talented Software Engineers, Engineering Managers and all the other new Tech colleagues we're looking for. If tech stack like Kotlin, React.js, Kubernetes, Kafka, MongoDB, Azure Cloud, Microservices sounds familiar, then this is the place for you.

You will be given the freedom and responsibility to take ownership of your work and broaden your horizons by working together with knowledgeable colleagues from different countries who have an abundance of expertise in many areas. We will continually invest in you and help you build on your talents and skills for the future.

Key responsibilities of your role

Your role is highly diverse and encompasses various responsibilities. Here are the key ones:

• As a Tech Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will be responsible for recruiting new tech candidates for the various Tech Platform teams. You understand the tech candidate market like no other and enjoy considering how to entice candidates in the current market to come in for interviews.
• As part of the AH Tech Recruitment Squad, you will proactively approach vacancies in an agile, prioritized manner. You are the tech recruiter who also enjoy actively sourcing and have a network within the IT sector. We don’t use any agencies for filling our tech roles, just your expertise as part of a strong tech recruitment team.
• You will ensure a smooth and transparent recruitment process, including conducting intakes / interviews, sending out tech assessments, and negotiating contracts with potential new colleagues. Candidate experience is also important to you.

Requirements

We think you’ll be best geared for success if you meet the following requirements:

• You have strong IT recruitment experience in a corporate environment or within an IT recruitment agency. International experience and is a strong asset.
• You have an affinity for all things tech and enjoy spending time with tech colleagues at all levels within the tech organization, and of course, with your own tech team as part of the Career Center. To be successful, you must quickly connect with everyone, build relationships, choose the right tone of voice, collaborate efficiently, and set up and manage the right recruitment activities necessary to achieve hiring targets.
• Solid coordination skills and knowledge of both Dutch and English are essential.
• Like us, you combine a passion for tech with a service-oriented and no-nonsense mentality, while also being results-driven.

Aside from these hard skills, we think you should also bring some much-valued soft skills to the table: an entrepreneurial mindset, outspoken communication skills and a proactive approach. In addition to these, a high level of creativity, empathy, and enthusiasm will take you far.

What’s in it for you?

Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; a hybrid working model (we ask you to spend 60% of your working time at the office); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.

Plus:

• A gross annual salary between 55 – 70K euro gross based on full-time (40 hours) employment (holiday pay included)

• Attractive bonus
• 45 vacation days per year (25,5 vacation days and 19,5 paid-leave days)
• First-rate pension plan, one of the best in The Netherlands

• Travel expenses or an NS travel card

• A laptop and smartphone
• Great tech recruitment team to work with

Are you keen to join the Tech Recruitment team?
Even if you don’t tick all the boxes, but you still believe you have the personality and skills that make you a suitable candidate, we strongly encourage you to reach out to us. Feel free to contact Wouter Koeleman, Manager Tech Talent Acquisition via LinkedIn if you have any questions.

At Ahold Delhaize and our local brands, we broadly define diversity as being inclusive of thoughts and skills, generational differences, LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, nationalities and more, and we accept all people for who they are.

What matters to us?

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together, we help people eat well, save time and live better – it’s how we make a difference. And we do it because we care: for our customers, our people and the world around us.

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